Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-31

not consider the retaliatory or war bill
recently passed by the Senate respecting
the Canadian fishery trouble.
Representative Tucker, of counsel for the
State of Virginia in tne coupon cases mat
were set for hearing in Baltimore last Fiji
day, but postponed, says that no day has
been fixed for the argument.
The President signed the Mexican pen
sions bill last Saturday evening, and that
bill is now law. The pensioners of this
bill are those who served sixty days in the
Mexican war and are now sixty-two years
old. or were disabled by that war, or are de.
pendent. Neither are the widows of Next
can soldiers entitled to pensions unless they
are sixty.two years old. Officers receive no
more than privates-eight dollars a month.
The pension bureau will supply applicants
with circulars containing all necessary in
formation.
Notwithstanding the existence Of the law
prohibiting seine and gill net fishing in the
waters of the District Of Columbia, seines
have been hauled in those waters ever since
the disappearance Of the ice.
The Attorney General still has the inter-
state commerce bill before him. 1t is be
lieved the President will sign it whether
Mr.. Garland shall report fayoraby upon it
or not.
In the Senate to day General Malone in
troduced bill appropriating $4,000 for a
naval hospital park at Portsmouth, Va.
General Malone also presented the follow
ing petition:
Your petitioner, Richard Eta Mason Ruggles,
respectfully represents that she is the sole devsee
of her maiden sister, Georgiana Seymour Hooe,
deceased, under her will. That said Georgiana
Seymour Hooe, during the late war of the rebel
lion, resided on her plantations Friedland and
Disnden, in the county of King George, Virginia,
and was then an elderly maiden lady, a non COM
Blatant, and in no manner a partisan in the war,
and that for considerable time her plantations
were occupied by troops of the federal army, and
that during their stay her forests were destroyed
her fences burned her crops destroyed, her stock,
forage grain and poultry WAS taken for the use of
the said troops by the officers in command and
used by them. evading q Just accountability.
Your memorialist prays that her claim may be re-
ferred to the U. s. Court of Claims.
RICHARD ETA MASON RUGGLEs
The friends of representative Cox, of
New York, are very anxious about his con-
dition, and fear that he may never recover.
They say he is naturally fral and weak,
and wonder why he should have left the
genial cline of Constantinople to spend the
winter in this damper and colder city.
Mr.. Randall mas had conferences with
some of the leading tariff reform democrats
of the House on the subject of his tariff bill,
and says he is hopeful, late as it is, that
some bill will be passed at this session, IN
der suspension of the rules, by which the
tax on tobacco and ON one or two other
things will be removed His hopes are not
shared in by many.
A gentleman who has just returned from
an extensive tour of the South, says he has
read accounts of the great business boom in
this section but witnessed nothing to war
rant it. With referencesto Birmingham, be
says there is no doubt that business is active
there, but that neither the iron nor the coal
there compares favorably with that found
either in Virginia or Tennessee.
When the District OF Columbia appropri-
alton bill was under consideration in the
House last Saturday evening, Ms. Compton,
Of Maryland, moved to amend it by provid-
ing for sn ice boat to keep open the Wash
ington harbor and its approach during the
winter, but his motion was ruled out on
point of order. Gen. Malone says he will
see what can be done by the Senate to Sc
cure the desired object
The U. 5. Supreme Court room was
crowded this morning by prominent lawyers
and others to listen to the argument in the
Telephone cases. Judge Lysander HILL for
merly of Alexandria, who has sqaired
large fortune as a patent lawyer here, is one
of the leading counsel employed. and his
argument delivered last week in opposition
to the Bell patent is said to have been very
strong one, by competent judges. In order
to allow more time for the argument: of the
telephone cases The decisions of the court
were briefly announced instead of being
read in full as usual After the usual mo-
tions and admissions TO the bar there was
brief colloquy between the chief justice aud
counsel for che respective telephone com.
panies with regard to the allotment of time
for their arguments. The chief justice
finally announced that the court would
further postpone the February recess and
sit Monday and Tuesday of next week to
hear argument in these cases in order
to give all counsel ample time, but
that it would do this upon the under
that counsel should apportion the
time equitably among themselves, and not
throw that duty upon the court. Mr.. |
Storrow then proceeded with his argument |
in behalf of the Bell Telephone Co.
Representative Daniel OF Virginia, who had &C. |
cepted an invitation to attend the Masonic cele- |
braton in Fredericksburg this evening, was pre-
vented from going by important business Sew |
ersl people from this city left on the morning |
train to attend the celebration, and more will go
down on tho train this evening.
Secretary Mannings friends say there is no ,
longer any doubt of his early resignation and &C
ceptancy of bank presidency with a largo salary.
It seems to be the general impression that Assist
ant Secretary Fairchild will be his successor
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